One-piece circle dress garment



y 1957 J. w. KING 2,790,974

ONE-PIECE CIRCLE DRESS GARMENT Filed June 22, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEYS y 7, 1957 J. w. KING 2,790,974

ONE-PIECE CIRCLE DRESS GARMENT Filed June 22. 1953 x 2 Sheets-Sheet z INVENTORI ATTORNEYJ United States Patent G ONE-PIECE CIRCLE DRESS GARMENT Joseph W. King, Winston salem, N. (3.

Application June 22, 1953, Serial No. 363,006

1 Claim. (Cl. 2--74) This invention relates to a one-piece outer garment for women, and more particularly to a seamless outer garment which may be made up in different styles and for different purposes from a continuous, integral and fiat circular blank or piece of dress material.

Objects of the invention are to provide a one-piece, seamless, draped outer garment which, when opened out flat, consists of a single substantially circular piece of dress material having at least one opening at the central portion through which at least the head, and possibly the head and shoulders project, when the dress is draped on the wearer. Other objects are to provide a one-piece, seamless, draped outer garment comprising, when opened out flat, a single substantially circular piece of dress material having one or more slits at the central portion constituting neck and arm openings by which the central portion may be draped upon the torso and gathered at the waist line of the wearer to form an upper waist or blouse from which the outer portion of the circular piece depends as a circle skirt.

Another object is to provide a seamless draped womans outer garment comprising a continuous, integral substantially circular piece of dress material having an approximately centrally located diametrical slit through which at least the head of the wearer may be projected, the overall radius of the substantially circular piece being adequate to the stature of the wearer, when gathered on a waist line circle of a selected radius, to form the central portion within that circle into an upper body portion or blouse, and the portion outside of that circle into a depending skirt.

These and other objects and the advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following specification when taken with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a blank or piece of dress material for the manufacture of a garment embodying the inventon;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and on a larger scale, showing the garment on the wearer;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of another form of blank according to the invention;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged scale front view of a wearer and a garment made from a Fig. 3 blank;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a further form of blank;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged scale front view of a garment made from the Fig. 6 blank; and

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view on an enlarged scale showing one method of finishing the edges of an opening in the garment.

In the drawings, the reference numeral 1 identifies a circular piece of dress material provided with a diametrical slit or opening 2 and a pair of smaller slits 3 at opposite sides thereof. The slit 2 constitutes a neck opening by which the material may be draped on the wearer and the smaller slits 3 constitute arm openings. The silts are within the central area A of the material which is defined by at waist line circle W of a desired radius r, the central portion A forming a blouse or upper portion of the garment when the material is draped upon the wearer and is gathered in at the waist line circle by a belt B, see Fig. 2. The material C between the opening 2 and the arm openings 3 may be gathered by clasps or bows 4 to form shoulder straps. The radius R of the sheet of material is such as to provide a depending skirt of ample length for the wearer from the portion D of the blank which lies outside of the waist line circle W.

As shown in Fig. 3, the arm openings 3 may be omitted from the circular blank 1 when the desired garment is to be of oil the shoulder type as shown in Fig. 4. In this case, the garment is formed by slipping the circular blank 1 down over the head and shoulders of the wearer, and providing a draw string, 7, around the opening 2 for gathering the material at armpits to form the central seition A into a sleeveless bodice. A belt B is then applied at the waist line circle W to gather the material to form the depending skirt D.

In a modified construction as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the blank 1 may be provided with a neck opening 2 and a single arm opening 3, the material C between these openings being gathered by a bow or clasp 4 to form a single shoulder strap.

The edges of the openings may be finished to prevent raveling by picot stitching, or as shown in Fig. 7, by a tape 5.

The garments may be made of difierent types of appropriate materials according to their intended use for evening wear, beach wear, as cocktail dresses, street dresses or house dresses. The garments are cool to wear and may be made up by persons having but little skill in sewing and in dressmaking. The radius R of the blank determines the size of the garment and a blank of a particular size may be fitted to different figures by small variations in the length of the neck and the arm openings.

I claim:

A womans seamless, draped garment, comprising a continuous, integral circular blank of material of radius adequate in extent to provide, respectively, an upper body portion and a skirt portion for a chosen stature, said blank having therein a single and substantially diametrically arranged slit terminating within a waist line circle of a selected radius, said slit constituting means for the projection through the blank of the head and shoulders or" a wearer, a drawstring along the marginal portions of said slit for gathering the same at the armpits of the wearer and a belt gathering the blank substantially at said circle at the waist line covering portion of the garment thereby to form the central portion of the blank into a strapless bodice and the outer portion of the blank into a circle skirt depending below said belt.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,446,209 Brown Aug. 3, 1948 2,534,827 McTammany Dec. 19, 1950 2,620,476 Kelsall Dec. 9, 1952 2,649,589 Shiltong Aug. 25, 1953 2,701,368 Swartz Feb. 8, 1955 FOREIGN PATENTS 140,642 Australia Apr. 5, 1951 

